Global Device Approvals, Weekly Snapshot: Sept. 3-9, 2018

A snapshot of global medical device and diagnostics approvals recorded during the past week in Medtech Insight's Approvals Tracker. This week, five approvals were added from Europe, Israel and Japan.

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Five novel device approvals were added to Medtech Insight's Approvals Tracker last week, including three European CE marks for coronary dilation balloon catheters made by SIS-Schwager Medica-SIS.

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Also last week, Check-Cap LTD, announced Israeli approval of its C-Scan ingestible capsule for colorectal cancer screening, and BTG, along...

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